The Sun. — London, England, 1810-09-22 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY; SEPT.2I. THIRD DAY.-FRIDAY, SEPT. 21. • " MURDER. Emanuel Josephs,. a Portuguese. seaman, was in= ditited for the wilful murder of Jotin Jones,.a seaman, and a native of Wales. Mr. GURNEY opened the prosecution, and stated the case. Peter Jacobi, a Danish seaman, deposed, that lie and the deceased lodged together at the sign of the 'Red Lion, Wapping. On the evening of the e4th of August they went out to take a walk in Great Hertuttage•street; the witness was walking before the deceased ; some Portuguese seamen were behind them ; they- comtnenced throwing stones, one .of which struck the witness, which made,him turn round, when he heard the deceased say he was stab bed; the deceased was fighting with another man at the time that he 'said he was stabbed, pointing-to wart's the prisoner.. Susannah Porter deposed, that she lived in lough-alley; she saw five Portuguese sailors as sank the deceased; she was sure the prisoner struck him. She :heard the deceased call out, that he st:ibbed with a knife in the belly ; she saw his• bom els through the incision. , The prisoner at tempted to run away, but was followed and brought back. John Wren, a Swedish seaman, deposed, that about eight o'clock in the evening of the 24th of August, he sisv a number of Portuguese seamen, amongst whom was the prisoner, tolloWing the de ceasms3and theitrst witness: he saw them take stones from under their jackets, and throw them at the de . ceased, who called out, " Give us fair Play ! give mms English play !" and attack ed oneof the prisoner's par ty with a stick ; on which the prisoner drew a knife from. under his jacket, and stabbed the deceased. He immediately attempted to escape, but the witness followed hmim i and secured him. The prisoner threw the knife away. John Marks deposed,altat he • heard the cry of - murder, and saw the prisoner running at full speed. He stopped him sunlit the last witness utile Up. Mr. Rance, surgeon to the, London Hospital, de pose,tz that the, deceased was brought to the ,Hospi tal oh the night of the 24th of August, and died at eleven o'clock the night following. He had not a &alit but he'died of the wound be bad received in' his side,. The Rev. Edward Robson deposed, that,he attend ed the deceased in the Hospital, in his official Capa ciay "of a Magistrate, to take his declaration. He (the witness) administered An oath to the deceased, who was perfealy . colleaed, but seemed in much pain. Time prisoner was. present. He wrote down the de , ce4sed'a declaration, which the prisoner seemed per fezaly to understand, which made the witness be sur prised, on a subsequent . examluation, at the prison er's asking for an'interpreter. _ • . Mr. „Ata.o, Counsel fur the prisoner, objected to time declaraticin of the deceased being received, as it was not in conformity with the Act of Parliament, which set forth, that a Magistrate was authorized -to take the declaration of 2 dying man; on his being brought before him , but in the present instance, the Magistrate went to the deceased.. He also ob jeded to it, as it might nut be the dying declara tion of the deceased ; for although he died at 11 o'clock that night, there was no evidence to shew that he was sensible of his dissolution being so near. The Court over-ruled these objeaions. The examination of the deceased was then read; which stated, that on the evening before, he was walking with his shipmate ; as he passed by the end of .Plough-lane, he was assaulted by two men, one of who en was the prisoner. His assailants were soon joined _ by. others; they being Portuguese s.milors,, he was fighting one of them with a stick, when the prisoner stabbed him in the belly with a knife ; and he was. certain the prisoner was one of them that first assaulted him. Mr. Robson, on his cross-examination' by Mr. ALLEY, said that the prisoner, after the deceased hal made his declaration, and it was committed 'to paper, declined saying"thitig. This closed the prosecution oh the part of. the, Crown. • m - Tile prisoner, by the assistance of an interpreter, in his defence %aid, that-he had been fighting with the deceased .and that the first witness, Peter Jacobs, was the first person ,that struck him (the prisoner), and stole his h at. His• Counsel, Mr: ALLEY, then called the follow ing witnesses John Gill deposed, he. resided in Russell's-build ings : that his father-in-law lived in Plough-alley, nearly .opposite the - house in which the Portuguese saihrs lodged. • About five o'clock in the evening he saw a crowd in the. alley, .which made him go to his father-in-law's house; he saw the deceased and several other American sailors standing oppo s . "site the Portuguese boarding-house, the door and windows of which were shut; they addressed them selves to the witness, particularly the deceased, and said they had been very ill used by some Portuguese , e the deceased appeared as if he had been fighting, he had . a short stick, about two feet lohg, in his nand. The witness advised them to.go away, which they did soon after. On . .his cross-examination by Mr. GURNEY, 'he tid that he did not know of his own knowledge that. the Man he bad been speaking of was the de ceased, but he had heard he was from others. Vim. FOtest, grocer, Great Hermitage-street, deposed, that about half an hour before he beard a life had ,beeti. lost, he saw the aleceased and several American sailors go down plough-alley, using much profane and threatening language against the Por- . kuguese. . . . On his cross-examination, he said he never saw the. deceased after he was wounded. , Elizabeth Saul, servant to Roderique, who kept the . Portuguese boarding-house, deposed, that about Live or six o'clOck in, the, evening_ of the 24th of August, a rortuguese came into the house, followed by the deceaied and four of his comrades. " Those w'ho aecoMpanied the . dec - ea,i•A were perttading him to go away, but he swore- that he- would not uu ii sour' of the Portuguese would fight him. Tice witness begged ot him to leave 'the house, as her master and mistress were -out ; and it he had any t: ing to settle, let them go out of (loots and•decide. The deceased, atter a great deal of peisucision, left the house, but'shortly returned with eight Aloe 'lean sailors, and. s'ruck one of the Pintuguese, of the name of Lopez. He repeated his blow set eras times, at last Lopez and the other Portuguese t•uShed the deceased and his comrades out or the house. The deceased went away muttering violent ly. The witness shut, the dour and window-shut ters ; soon after, the deceased rout nedagain, ac companied by' the sante party, with a pirce of rope in his hand ; he knocked violently against the door, and swore he %void.' break the door if the Portu guese would not come out and fight It in. - Mr. 601 persuaded them to go-away ; the prisoner had not been in the house all this time, - he went out after dinner ; as the decea-el was going away, re venge, he said, he was deterined to have ; in a short time after she heard the cry of murder. , The prisoner was always in the habit of coming home and avoiding those quarrels when they took place between.his countrymen and the , Anfericans, which Were lattely Very terqUent. • On hercross-examinatiou she said, she only knew that the dece4sed was the person who bad been .at_ her master's 'house by hearsay, for she never saw him rill after he was wounded : he was-a,tall thin man, marked with the small-pox, and:bad a speck . on one of his eyes. Francisco Lopez,-a Portuguese sailor, who gave his evidence by the assistance of an line' preter, de posed that he knew 'the prisoner ; they ludg4l to- . gether at Roderique's house: the, deceased came into the room where he (the witness) was,and , for all the Portuguese to come out to tight,-which they refused, on which the decea-ed went out. He corroborated the - testimony of the last witness as to the return of the deceased and his comcades; and said that he and the prisoner took a walk to the London docks ; as they returned home, thedeceased followed them—he had seven mote will: hint :- when the prisoner and the witness got to the door (Roderique's), they could not get in, as the door was shut ; he saw the deceased strike the prisoner, on which 'he (the prisoner) ran away. He did not hear the deceased was stabbed until two hours alter. Oa hiscrosS examination, he said, he did not know only_by beaisay that the deceased was the same man that struck the prisoner. M. Justice HEATH summed up the evidence with his usual perspicuity, and defined to the Jury the difference betwv.en what constituted murder in the eyes, of the law, and manslaughter. The Jury re tired, and after deliberating an hour, acquitted the prisoner of the capital offence, but found 11413ga1/1y GjMavlaughier.—Aged 25. Tauter of an hour, .1 - 6Und her Guilty:—Dath ; but recommended her to mercy on account of her yorith. . 'Mrs. Parker begged thetourt vvori'd have mercy on the unfortunate prisoner—she said her: parents were honest industrious people. She could hardly articulate, she was so much aft-Med. UNNATURAL CRINLE. A wretch of the name of Georie Rowell was ca ,pitally Witted fur an abominable? offence; but the capital part not being made out to the sat , stac-tionof tbe Cow t, this 'monster in human shape was ac quitted, but ordered to be detained until tried for he iniklemeanour. • Hitchens, the Country Banker, whose swindling notoriety is generally admitted, and who hits been fo r some time in custody on a charge of stealing an Exchequer Bill, value too!. the particulars of which (large !are already befure the public, %as tried on Thursday evening, and caritally c'ouviaed. ATTEMPT TO POISON, . • Elizabelh Mitchlift, only 14 years , of age, and in. appearance not more than t t, was capitally indift-. ed under the, Act - commonly 'called Lord Ellenbo rough's fir administering a quantity of arsenic, with the intent to murder Anne Parker, her misl tress,. and Chiistoplier John Stanley and Samuel Smith, two children under the care of Mrs. Parker. Anne Parker, .perfumer" and dealer in medicines, No. 14, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden, with much agitation deposed, that the prisoner lived with her as a. servant ; she for a long time was teazing the witness to send for some poison to _destroy the rats, which she said had over-Inn the lower pail of the house. On the 2d of September she wrote .a note to Mr. Midgeley, of No. 47, Strand, requesting him to send her some poison to destroy the rats; prisoner went with the note, and brought back a paper parcel with the 'poison • the witne:so desired her to put it into a desk in the parlour, after which the witness removed it for greater security to the back part of the desk : she desired the prisoner to settle the parlour and get tea, which she did she brought': up _two • tea-pots with British herb tea. The witness then gave her some halfpence, to go out and buy some mortar to mix with broken glass to stop up the rat-holes, after the poi Son bad been put in: The witness poured tint tea for' her self and the two children ; they drank theirs, but the witness let bet's get cold, when she drank it off in. one draught : her - throat- immedia.ely got hot; she fist thought there , might be pepper amongst the 'sugar: She' potrred herself out another cup, but did not drink it, as she burned all the way down : it soon searched round her, and met at the back bone, from whence the pain shot into her thigh r she went to 'the desk and looked at the package, but was of opinion it had not been opened. One of the children, only four years of age, began vomiting, and the second shortly was io the saute state; - the witness was seized with a violent trem bling ; the prisoner came in ; she asked h e r what she had put into the tea ? she said nothing the wit ness told her, if she had been playing any tricks with the poison, and would confess, she, the witness, would go to au apothecary, and get something to relieve them, and there should not be word said of tt :- the prisoner denied she had put any thing' into the tea, and said,if the witness would look at the parcel, sbe would find it in the same state that the • Gentleman 'had given it to her in. The witness took the parcel, and set off for. the chemist's in the Strand, but was there taken three different- times with vio lent vomiting-before she got to Mr. Midgeley. He examined the parce4 - and said .it had been opened - i. and on. weighing it, found it was deficient a quarter. of an ounce. - He made up some medicine. to relieve' her and the children, but she was a fortnight before site recovered. The prisoner bad behaved very. well for a long time before the 2d of September ; • three days before that, the witness had scolded bet for wearing dirty linen, and she wits that very 'even= , . ing Making'a mew frock for her. £vlr. George Midgiey corroborated the testimony of Mrs. Parker. 'The prisoner in her , defence said, she did so be cause her rmstresS'used her dl. !'he Learned Judge, Mr.. Baron . WooD, summed np the evidence; .and the July, alter deliberatiug LONDON Printed by RICHARD HARRIS; of No. 4, Marti:At-court, Bow -street; a:ld Irt:;sl.eLl by WILLIAM ARMI G E SC►;II'L'S, South Molton the SUN "OFFICE, No. - 11 2, Straud, where AdVerlisernenls, Orders or tbe Fcper, Letters for the 4di'or Vic. , (post-paiti), Mtn icdeed the trial throughout excited much, rberrl mem. • The prisoner, in her defence, totally denied one assault ; and stated, that 'her liu,band (who, by t d bye, had another wife living, ab o ut 70 Year s ; 5 . age)' was so jealous, there was - no such thing pleasing him. She was acquitted. • John Davis and John Down were indicted fo lk 1 tering two pieces of metal, purporting to be 81,_,.°, England dollars, well kbowing the same to be:taw 7 and counterfeit. th at Mr. KNAPP- stated . - the case. It appeared ,,t 7i about nine o'clock - in the everting of t he l t t ,""r August, 'the two prisoners called•at the white be public-hou.e, at Hadleigh, kept by a person o f name of Hewing; they asked for a quarters of g" in payment of which they tendered a dollar, and r e ; ceived the change, although it would appear they had plenty of small silver about them. I r , few minutes alter they had gone, Hewing disco` e, A ed that the dollar was bad, and itnmediately.l4'. it by itself. At about a quarter after nine the Ares sners went to the Cock public-house, hep t ,. b l ni Mr. Shirely, which is about luo l ards dstant 1r 43- the White Bear ;- there also they called for a 9 1141 ;' tern of gin, and in payment tendered another dolla; when they received the change th e y dOp3rie d , „ i f such a hurry as• to excite suspicion in the into" Mrs. who served them,. that she hart bee Cheated. She communicated her tears to her 1 11 -' 5 ; band, who onlooking at the dollar, immediately that it was counterteit. While they woe the.eircaunstance, the !myth:nil:or the I.lt-liitc Bead came in, and, 'oh informiog Mt. • SiiideY tv to he too had. been taken in, they deterinio ea liy procure a consteblee and -go in Breech k ,-1 parties., They accordingly . applied to • igte'; :o . Walsh., ..the Constable of Chipping Barnet , w od in - company with a brother othcer; of ilia of Thomas, proceeded . to •the Mitre In t ; 1 0 house,- at Chipping Barnet,, where they fouOu vith prisoners enjoying a cool FN. 'l - ‘tiey had d ; them three bundles, two of which Davis clain'' and the third, he asserted, belonged to D' v whoM he was unacquainted with, otherwise tb' having met him on the road, and c 0 ,3 1: pany. Down, at that time denied the batiLitr: but the next morning lie opened it, and, "re L ing looked over the things,. observed, " th n e c is a coat •of mine mis,ing ;" the iole te te from which was, the bundle belong" ( . r him. In this bundle were found. tweiityel°,3l counterfeit dollars-=-a frame, in w hi c h tie for making them had beee melted—and a ~,blee vice. When Davis was first apprehended, " 3 t o observing him very busy at the table, went ov e r r, see what he was about, when he dropped 0 , ,` l° ' 'which, on examination proYedeo be base. • 'l a t v person he found, in gold; bank noteß, and silv'er~ a t the amount of 13i. Els. The piisonera w e r e 1 0 . , night secured in Welsh's house; and on the ea ;i j • ing morning, while •he was gone to apply to ` il ,ere gistrate on the subject, Davis endeavoured (0 his escape. He was, however, seen tuuniog the garden, by Mark Walsh, the constabliii. a youth of 15 Or 16 years of ag9, who did out ''', tate, though Davis is a tall. stoat man, L0, 1111 7,' - t , him; and though knocked down in, the first ° 7 O O he continued to engage him, until atioaeer niet came •to his assistance ; for which c;.'„ u rt, he received the well-inerited .praise .61 the 'l and of the Counsel air both side's. . O6 Mr. tiomershana, from the liank, prove - whole 27 dollars, including those. passed tuthe P'' licans, to be counterfeit. • • bo'' The whole of the heas of the case, as a stated, were supported by the clearest test uno"Y' • Mr . REYNOLDS made an ingenioui speech 0 ' your of the prisoners. diEt The Jury almost immediately returned a vete of Guilty against both the prisoners, who were b st o tenced to six months' imprisonment in lac`` ; and at the expiration of toat term, to eit curity for their good behavout for six mouths to come. tee' -- Joitn ll'ildgoose, indicted for stealing twenty of leather, the property of Mr. Lingham, breccc-ii, miker, in the Strand, pleaded Ciuthy, S and viv‘' 6 ' fenced to six months imprisonment, t he Mr: Lingham stated, that lie had dealt*.wil' l lel y prisoner, ‘A ho had been employed by him CO' tidly, in' the mi r lde.t manner he had been P• ) " 0 11 to a ennsiderable amount, and had he pleased, core' have indicted him capitally ; but tie hoped' Ol d sent ptinishment7WOuid 4.stitlicient wartiilLb to him and *others. • • • • - in 5" JohrlYcies was indiaed for stealing a'bas - , ur two-salt-cellars, the propuriy.ot Mebsrs. of Paddington, cnal-carrier. ro*'' A Clerk in the a employ of s Messrs. Pickford , P ed his havit,g taken the articles from the prison but as no peison attended who.couid prove-th' il t; e; be the properly of -Me Pack: ford; the vrj' ° was,acquitied. Jse.P.J4 •" Clit ay iFiqcreis, SF PT. 20. galled -the Midas; Hit!! H ------- O. • sl' LI On Wednesday last, the Lady of John C a mpbell, Liston-Hall, of a paughtc.r. f I* On the zuth inst. fn Guildford:place' the L:tdy 0 .ward Shaw, Esq. 'of a Son. . r), , Lively, at the ttuuse ukt'..:te Nbreitionesi l of Anieg l i: : s l.3 lent, ne.tr . t.,rsbQn, the Lady, of Cal,t.do'lLogers, of ' - Regiment, of a Pougtitm • - . __..--••"' DIE D. 1 t til At Bromley, Francis Bristoll,-, Esq agesi 88, ....t 0 e• On the Stn inst. ut.Leopirlstowu, Ireland,' the S coo ~, Right Hun. Lord Castlecoutc; the flon.Climrles Henry ;lop • Licutenaiit-Colonei or the 5,2 lltAll'b .Cuunty MAIO , / 0 2inii year of his age. o t . ' . " lv d ii . On Thursday last, Mrs Elizabeth Smith, vv ,c _ A ii e ,, ye' W i lliam. 4 / biol.. o f Co i .p k ce-r .., Clerkenwell, agcu / . 1 alter two years painful iiiii..s - 0 The someday, at Lee, ai inc house of her neph o " Griffin, Mrs. Susannah ~ .allccr, aged 73. —,...--...--................„ sire -_t. Gre2YCnor . ttjti?.r6• bt addresird. '1 • P 4 ; 4 , 1 CLERKANWELL SE4SIOINS. Yesterday John Falkner was inciieled for an as sault upon Margaret Allen. _ It: appeared that the prosecutrix and the prisoner -- had lot utterly lived together ; bui the proS, cutrix haJ abandoned her paramour and married heri•reselit husband ; the,prisoner kid also enteted the H) in.- neat state ; and 'as the two families resided in the same court in the neighbourhood of Brick lane, jea lithsy, thit dire the to doincStic kfppinv,,s, occasioned eternal qUairels between them. At the conclusion of one_of these battles-royat the prisoner surpried prosocuttix washing the mud which had been showered on her in the course of the action, at a pump which Stood in the court, and after some abu, sive expressions, threw a lare piece of brick at her; which cut her head desperately. . . He was found Guilty, and sentenced . to two months impri.onment. Antonio Anastaiia, a Greek seaman, was indi&ed for a•saultiog Frederick Willianu,,,a Portuguese sea-, man. The prisoner, it appeared, had formecian amo rous conned ion wit a fair one, who resided in Star yard, Nightingale-lane ; she_ had, Weyer, most cruelty forsaken him ; and, on Sunday, the sth of August, he sallied forth, like another Menelaus deter mined to recover hl3 false Helen, or perish in the attempt. Three times he esAyed to enter the house in which his mistress had taken refuge, threatening if she were not given up, that he tined, wreak his vengeance on every person in the place, 'particularly the Portuguese seaman, whom he sus petted of having beguiled the affections, so lilht and so vain," of his favourite ! Williams, who ap-• pears to to have been the Hector of the day, dime. back his opponent each time ; but he made liiS flitirth appearance at• the head of a posse of his 'countrymen, who , carried every thing, before them. The prisoner struck Williams a blow witti a .huge 'club, which knocked him down, and' cut him se ,verely. In that'state the victorious Greeks, in true Achillean style, dragged him round the court by the heels. They then assailed the house with Stones and brick-bars, and totally destroyed the doors, windows, and window-frames. Several witnesses were examined, one or whom proved the prisoner to be the person V% ho struck Williams; the others merely deposed as to his hav ing been the ringleader of the Precian parry which destroyed the-house. • . Sir WM. PARSONS explained the allegations of the witnesses in Italian to.the prisoner (wiin ‘k ould not 'or could not speak English) ; and also interpreted his defence, which was simply; that he had not struck Williams, nor did he know who had. He was, however, found Guilty, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Ann Wright was indiated for a violent assault on her, husband, John Wright, The,prosecutor, a superannuated Chelsea pen sioner, who was scarcely able to mount the steps of the witness's box, hail, it appeared, about nine months ago, married the priioner, who was - young enough to have been his grand-daughter. Since the . period of their marriage, they had lived in all the proverbial harmony - of cot and flog ! The green eyed monster had taken complete possession of the husband's mind, and his suspicions had Wien - on a young gentleman, of the name of Ward, the sun Of the prosecutor's landlord. It happened, about a fortnight since, prosecutor knocked for admission at his door, about seven o'clock in the morning ; his wire not, rising to let him in with 'all the promptitude which his impatience demanded,- lie immediately concluded his supposed rival was in the house, and taxed her' with infidelity. This accusa tion she answered by_tearing hisneckcloth and shirt to pieces —and, as he stated, by stabbing ith a knife in the hip.. A woman - of:the name of Bird, who resikli'd in tho , house was examined. She knew nothing how any particular assault-; they were 'always w-yairg ling. As to the wound in the nrose‘,Utor's hip, it had never been shewn to her ; nor did she ever hear of it before. Mr. Ward, the Gentleman whn.had railed -Such a tumult in the aged husband's brast, 'slated, that he knew nothing , about •the- astkault ; but thiS he knew, that Mr. Wright had taken very. UnWarrant 7 able liberties with his - name ; this; he supposed, araie from the following cause :=-41is father is the o - A ner of Ranelagh Walk, and be (the, witness) bAug, in consequence,. very intima:e - Shepherd, the proprietor of the Minor Ranel,:ig-h, - at Millbank, bad received 'some tickets from' 1.1i113, and he was requested by Mrs. Bird to give one of these tickets - to Mrs., Wright, - that site might :loin a party which was going to enjoy the Sp:endOis of that lashiotable place of amusement : he cOmplied with the tequest ; and since that' tittle Mr. Wright had. propagated very - - silatnelul reports concerning him. He wanted to go to Cambridge to take out his degree,. as he' WaS intended tor, the . Ministry pt the Church of Englan4 and was afraidssucit fakehoods might do him an irreparable inj , :ry. The witness, who had not rn,,ch the apyearance of a "gallant gay Lot hario,7 delivered his 'com plaints in a• style which caused general imaginer; , r-. . ' . . ..1 , 14 - t" 1< hlt i., ';V COr • On Thursday, at St: Pines's Church, Robert G Esq. to Mrs. Lernotit. - . olg c; The same thy, ktnes Gosling., Esq. to Harriet, Y° b daughter „1 the iate Johnson Wilkinson, Usti - . ciO rt i, On the 2, , ,1ii inst.. at Si. Mary's, N6vington, Mr' -10 Corbould, of Foster-lane, to Miss Jane Plimptoh, °t 1,. wotth. • - ' ..' Cr 111 1.4 The same day, .at Great Ealing, .Middlesex, Olin c i.%.,, Esq. of Park:place, :-,:. I.i.iiests-street. to Catherilie,iii.,e daughter, of i•taii,..is !IL:ay Tyler, Esq. ut liedcur4 Betttord.squar,:.